The Most Terrifying Words You Could Ever Hear

The
guest on this edition of Crosstalk said something that should serve
as a wake-up call to everyone. He said that we can be wrong about a
lot of things in this life and still survive, but if we’re wrong
about our faith, we will pay for that mistake forever and ever.

Mike
Gendron is responsible for that statement. He’s the founder and
director of Proclaiming the Gospel Ministry. Mike was a devout Roman
Catholic for 34 years and was taught to rely upon the authority of
the church above all else. He searched the Scriptures and was amazed
to find that what he read in Scripture contradicted the teaching and
tradition of the church he had been a part of for so long. He
trusted Jesus as his Savior and now the Bible has become his sole
authority in all matters of faith.

What
are the most terrifying words anyone could ever hear? Mike noted
that those words were spoken by Jesus Christ. He said, ‘I never knew
you. Depart from me.’ Jesus went on to say that not a few, but many
will hear those words, many that call him ‘Lord’.’ Christ is
speaking here about professing Christians who’ve been deceived
regarding life’s most critical issue and that concerns what one must
do to be saved.

These
words of Jesus will be communicated on the day of judgment. In
response, many will say that they did do all these things in the name
of Jesus but Jesus will tell them that they never departed from
iniquity. So what people are trusting in is the religious works
they’ve been doing rather than what Christ has done.

The
apostle Paul gives a warning/exhortation in II Corinthians 13:5. He
says, ‘Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your
own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in
you, except ye be reprobates?’ Paul was writing this to the church
in Corinth, exhorting them to make sure they had genuine, God-given,
saving faith.

Mike
noted that in Matthew 7:22-23, where Christ gives his warning, he’s
talking to people that are boasting about everything they’ve done in
the name of Jesus. They’re even calling him ‘Lord’. So salvation is
not based upon what we do, but instead upon what Christ has done.

Sadly
many people, when asked about salvation, will mention what they’ve
done, haven’t done or what they are doing now to please God. In
James 2:10 it says that if you keep the whole Law perfectly yet
stumble at just one point, you’re guilty of breaking all of it. So
until a person can be saved, they must first be convicted to realize
that they are a sinner on death row. They need to find a substitute
that can die for them and that substitute is Jesus Christ.

As
this Crosstalk progressed, Mike explained the hallmarks of a false
convert, how these traits can be corrected, the professors of Christ
vs. the possessors, and much more.

More Information:

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obtain the DVD ‘False Converts in the Church’ (with a bonus message
called ‘Witnessing for the Glory of God’) at the reduced price of $12
and/or the tract ‘True Faith or False Hope?’ go to
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